Dr. Kwakiutl L. Dreher

Professor

Degrees and institutions granting the degree

• University of South Carolina-Columbia, B. A.
• Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, M.A.
• University of California-Riverside, Ph.D.

Research Interests

• African American Literature
  • Contemporary Literature to present
  • Autobiography
  • Mass marketed popular literature
• Film and Visual Culture

Journal Articles

A Eulogy for Tyrell Musgrove: The Disremembered Child in Marc Forster's Monster's Ball" Film Criticism. 29:1 Fall 2004.

Book Reviews:

• Massood, Paula J. Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2003. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2004.
• Donalson, Melvin. Black Directors in Hollywood. Austin: University of Texas, 2003. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2005.
• Ryan, Judylyn. Spirituality as Ideology in Black Women's Film and Literature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, P, 2005. Quarterly Review of Film and Video Forthcoming

Encyclopedia entries:

• A Toni Morrison Encyclopedia. Ed. Elizabeth Beaulieu. Westport: Greenwood, 2003; Entries: "Children" and "The Oprah Winfrey Book Club"

Community Interests:

Lincoln Community:

Guest Performer, "Live the Dream" Martin Luther King Birthday Celebration. January 16, 2006. Mary Riepma Ross Theater
Guest Performer, Angels Theater Company Summer Stock 2. The Loft at the Mill. June 17 & 18 2005
Featured Performer, "A Taste of Harlem" February 27 2005, sponsored by OASIS
The Lincoln Community Playhouse Play Reading Committee, 2003
Editor, The NAACP newsletter
Guest Poet, National Council of Negro Women

The Daily Nebraskan:

UNL struggles to beef up diversity," September 21, 2005
"Baskets Highlight African Culture" February 8, 2005
"Film Series Alerts Students to African History" February 6, 2004
"African-American Caucus Hosts Cultural Celebration" April 28, 2003
"UNL Offers ethnic studies options: Students explore minors in African American Studies" February 27, 2003

The Journalist:

"Debt From The Past" October 16, 2002. cover story

South Carolina Black News:

"Columbia Native Honored by Top Educators Association" March 13, 2003 cover story

Professional Conference Presentations:

Plenary Speaker, University of Warsaw-Institute for English Studies. Warsaw, Poland. Bridges across the Nations: African American Culture in the 21st Century. February 2-5, 2006. Topic: "'Don't Worry, Flo. I'll Take Care of It' Taking Care of Business Through Autobiography: Mary Wilson and Motown"

"Nice Girls Do It Too! Lena Horne and the Quest for Stage Legitimacy" accepted. Popular Culture Association. April 2006, Atlanta, Georgia

Panleist, "Behind the Storm" Hurricane Katrina, Government Response, and Media Coverage." Sponsor: African American and African Studies Program, October 21, 2005.

"The Political Economy of Image Making: Black Women and the Military in Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones." African Women in the Diaspora: Political Economy and Culture. Popular Culture Association 2005. March 23-26, San Diego, California.